Wikipedia now takes bitcoin. Coinbase, one of the big service providers, signed up the Wikimedia Foundation as a client. At the same time, Coinbase said it is offering its merchant services for free to all nonprofits, and BitPay as well began offering a fee-free merchant service.

The simple water spinach has shot into the spotlight in Malaysia, where the vegetable, which grows wild near drains and paddy fields, is now at the heart of a political debate – and a battle on Wikipedia.

The nominees for this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction are such newcomers to the literary scene, some of them don't even have Wikipedia pages yet. A look at how the prestigious British book awards are changing.